FORTHCOMING EVENTS

Retail's BIG Show - NRF 2009

VR Solution Provider "MI9" will be demonstrating Mockshop and Sampleroom at the main NRF show.
11th - 14th Jan 2009.
The Jacob Javits Centre, New York

NRF Design Studio

VR partner "Exhibium" will also be showing Mockshop and Sampleroom in the "Design Studio" at the NRF.
12th & 13th Jan 2009.
The Jacob Javits Centre, New York

Eurocis 2009

Europe’s leading trade fair for IT in Retail. 10-12 February 2009
Düsseldorf, Germany

Konferenz Partnerstores 2009

Visual Retailing will be on show at the 2009 conference. 19 March 2009
Steigenberger Airport Hotel, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

NEW PARTNERS

Metiri Mensus have been appointed as a VR Solution Provider

With over 14 years of experience in retail space planning Metiri Mensus have offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Aukland.

CLIENT NEWS

Mockshop Helps Drive Efficiency & Growth at Takko

Takko verzeichnet Effizienzsteigerung dank der Software Mockshop

18 months after installing Mockshop, Germany's second largest fashion discounter continues to improve effieiency and store merchandising.

Gelco Selects Visual Retailing Solutions to Underpin Rapid Growth

Visual Retailing unterstützt Gelco bei schnellem Wachstum

Leading German fashion brand speeds merchandising of new and existing shops with Mockshop.

René Lezard speeds up store merchandising with Mockshop planograms

Prestigious German fashion brand René Lezard is opening stores and has selected Mockshop as the tool to optimise space utilisation. René Lezard have found that Mockshop has halved the time it takes to plan, model and merchandise their new stores.

Dressmaster pushes its brand image with VR

Efforts to further push brand image and brand strength include an innovative Retail Partnership Concept developed using software from Visual Retailing. (Please see Dressmaster web site news)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Visual Merchandising: Window and
In-Store Displays for Retail

Tony Morgan, an indepenent visual merchandising consultant and lecturer at "The Fashion Retail Academy" in London, has published a book that explorers the role of the Visual Merchandiser as part of a retail operation and stresses the importance of effective VM.

Client news

René Lezard

 

Prestigious premium German fashion brand René Lezard is planning to open a number of new shops in Germany and abroad. To make certain the stores reflect the high-end and high-quality reputation of the brand, René Lezard selected Mockshop to optimize its sales space. .

 

“We heard about Visual Retailing’s solutions during the product research phase. When we tested them alongside competitive solutions, we were very impressed,” comments Jan Mangold, Retail Director at René Lezard. “The evaluation has shown that Mockshop and SampleRoom make it quick and easy for us to produce planograms of the merchandise and store layouts that really drive sales. This will make the whole planning phase much faster and accelerate execution of our plans on the shop floor.” .
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Dressmaster

 

Since Holger Schmies’ arrival as Managing Director at the end of July 2007 brand management at STONES has been given new thrust.

 

Commenting on this Holger Schmies said: 'Only with continuity and consistency can the brand fuse with our corporate strategy. We see the brand as an important asset for retail.' Efforts to further push brand image and brand strength include an innovative Retail Partnership Concept developed using software from Visual Retailing.

With the help of a 3D shopfitting program the shop is planned with merchandise, a planogram and display fittings.
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VF Europe
Lee and Vans brands

 

Fashion Giant VF Corporation to Optimize Retail Space with Visual Retailing’s Solutions. Initial focus on optimizing retail space in Europe for Lee and Vans brands.

 

In a fiercely competitive market, VF Europe was looking for a tool that could adapt to, and keep pace with, its fast-moving processes to maintain its competitive advantage. Although the company was already working with a visualization tool, its complexity meant that only a limited number of staff could use it. As a result, VF Europe decided to evaluate a number of different visualization solutions, and found that Visual Retailing’s proven and powerful Mockshop software was the best solution for their requirements.
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K&L Ruppert K&L improves communication with its branches thanks to Mockshop and Sampleroom from Visual Retailing  As a vertically integrated retailer, K&L want to have tight control over the whole value chain, from concept to consumer. Collections are developed locally, manufactured remotely and promoted to customers using K&L’s own marketing concepts. The whole K&L organisation has been reorganised to support this vertically integrated product lifecycle. The final step in this whole process is communication with its branches and making certain the original concept is implemented in a consistent manner across all 57 stores.
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O'Neill Europe O'Neill Europe find an effective and time efficient way to present their product ranges and retail propositions to their clients. O’Neill is now Europe’s leading manufacturer of functional and lifestyle surf / snowboard sports and casual wear. Annually our designers create over 2,500 styles that are sold in 35 countries, 400 'shop in shops' and 20 O’Neill stores. This abundance of styles and the geographical spread through various O’Neill sales channels are the main reasons why O’Neill selected Visual Retailing. We needed an effective and efficient way to present our product ranges and retail propositions to our clients.
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